The Riot Inside Me: More Trials and Tremors

“Satire and journalism are alive and well in L.A., at least when Wanda Coleman is doing the biting and the reporting.”—Publishers Weekly

The Riot Inside Me once again finds the author at the crossroads where art and politics, the personal and the political, and L.A. and the larger world meet. The 26 pieces gathered here—a “hopscotch” of essays, memoirs, interviews, and reports—include a haunting memoir of her first husband, a moth drawn to the flames of the more extreme forms of ’60s radical...